Seminar on Endogenous Research and Education: Towards inter-science dialogues
On Friday October 8, CAPTURED, in cooperation with WOTRO and ECDPM is organising a seminar for the scientific community, NGO’s and policy makers in the Netherlands on Endogenous Research and Education.
Goals of the seminar are:
- To share experiences and approaches on endogenous research and education with the scientific and development community in the Netherlands.
- To receive feedback and identify and discuss possible weaknesses and potentials of the approach
- To identify possible ways of cooperation or complementary actions.
Scientists from Ghana, India and Bolivia will present their approach and provisional outcomes and contributions from and comments of European experts are invited in order to have a stimulating dialogue for mutual learning.
Chair: Paul Engel, director ECDPM
Location: NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development, The Hague, The Netherlands
Interested? Register here.
Endogenous knowledge
A number of universities and institutes of higher learning offer education and research, which are building on indigenous cultures and related endogenous knowledge. This is done in the context of a dialogue between academic and indigenous scientific traditions, and is considered to be an important mutual learning process. It is seen as a constructive response to the still dominant spread of Western sciences. Higher education based on transdisciplinarity and dialogue between different scientific traditions aims at enhancing the emancipation and cultural vitalization, taking into account the rich diversity of scientific traditions all over the world.
CAPTURED
The international programme “Capacity and Theory Building for Universities and Research Centres in Endogenous Development” (CAPTURED) is part of these efforts. The programme is lead by the University for Development Studies (UDS) in Ghana, the Agroecology Programme (AGRUCO) of the Universidad Mayor de San Simon (UMSS) in Bolivia, and the Foundation for the Revitalisation of Indigenous Health Traditions (FRLHT) in India. It is funded by DGIS/DCO since 2008.
More information: www.captured-edu.org/
ECDPM
The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) is an independent foundation, legally constituted in the Netherlands, and began operations in 1986. Its focus is to help build an effective partnership between the European Union and Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific (ACP), particularly related to development cooperation. ECDPM engages in facilitating policy dialogue, creating understanding of processes and institutions and building capacity. More information: www.ecdpm.org/
WOTRO
WOTRO Science for Global Development is a research-granting organisation focusing on programming, funding and monitoring research. WOTRO is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and is legally mandated to channel and impartially allocate public funds for research. Over the years WOTRO has increasingly focused on programming and funding development-oriented research. In pursuing this agenda, WOTRO has gained experience in ensuring development relevance of research and in combining scientific excellence with development impact.
More information: www.wotro.nl